Improving on Nature 



healthy, wholesome peasant girl, was 

 forced to give her up for some flat- 

 chested, stupid daughter of imperial 

 pedigree, who had much better have 

 been the wife of a six-foot guardsman. 

 Likewise money must mate with 

 money; or rather the money-ruined 

 cigarette "Johnny" must marry the 

 petted product of some millionaire's 

 nursery, under penalty of disinheri- 

 tance. Hence an increasing brood of 

 pearl-decked dolls and drawing-room 

 drones. Conventionality! Always 

 and forever conventionality! Few are 

 brave enough, or foolish enough, to 

 defy it. Mrs. Grundy has too sharp 

 a tongue, and "Town Topics" comes 

 out too regularly. 



If men would spend as much time 

 and money and thought upon how to 

 perfect or control the physical and 

 mental standards of the race by natural 

 processes, as they do in experimenta- 

 tion upon animals and plants under 

 domestication, the imagination fairly 



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